Comment Re:Netbook vs iPad is false dichotomy. (Score 1) 503
I do all of those things with my MacBook today, so I'm not sure another device is justified.
I do all of those things with my MacBook today, so I'm not sure another device is justified.
You've never used it, and therefore you know it is no better.
I am sorry. I appear to have forgotten to use the <sarcasm> tag on that last comment.
The big problem is that the voters have ended up removing a lot of the power of the legislature to cut spending and raise taxes. A huge percentage of the budget is fixed by voter mandate. You can say it is "tax and spend Democrats" all you want, but a lot of the budget is mandated by "X funds must be spent on Y" propositions.
Yeah, Arnie is as right wing as a pro-environment, gay-friendly, pro-choice Republican can be.
It's a combination. It's a Democratic majority that refuse to cut any spending combined with a Republican minority that, given the California 2/3rds requirement, vetoes any tax increase. It's a deadly combo that guarantees the state will never be run in a fiscally responsible way. (i.e. insisting that inflows == outflows.)
If either party were able to fully define both tax and spending levels, the state would be better off.
When I was in college, I worked in the computer lab, and the bulk of my time was spent helping students with their assignments. Sometimes, it was valuable, explaining how things worked, what the algorithms were, etc. Other times, I'd get the "what do I type now" guys, who just wanted me to rattle off what the solution was. I presume by "no outside help" they mean the latter.
Many years ago, my intro to programming course had a very simple solution. You not only had to do the assignments, but you also had to explain what you did, face-to-face, with one of the TAs. It was extremely labor intensive, but there is no way you could cheat your way through it without knowing the task well enough to have done it anyway.
The question is: can you understand QuickSort if you can't write it from scratch, on your own?
As a manager, there are two sorts people I'd see as idiots (in the context of CS):
1) People who write QuickSort from scratch
2) People who can't write QuickSort from scratch
Neither is worth hiring.
2 seconds to set up and ten minutes to actually connect to the Exchange server.
(Which admittedly makes it twice as fast as Outlook.)
I guess I better register the "Make ucblockhead the God-Emperor of the United States" society.
You make a wild at guess at the time it will take. Then you double that. Then you add a week for bugfixing.
Then, during the schedule, if you start to get ahead, spend more time browsing the web. If you start to get behind, work extra and/or cut things like "unit testing" or "error checking". Do this as needed to deliver one day ahead of schedule. Then bask your reputation as an awesome scheduler.
If the professor is just reading his slides, he's a shit professor and is wasting everyone's time. You'd be better off just buying and reading the class notes.
If the professor is good, he's going to be adding a hell of a lot verbally to what he writes and projects.
s/Democrats/elected officials/g
Sorry, but that's bullshit. I've had activated computers die more than once. You load up iTunes (on any working machine), go into "account settings" and click "deauthorize all". You can then freely authorize any five computers.
I've done this multiple times. I've had three different machines die when "authorized", done this each time, yet right this moment I have five different machines authorized to play with the same account.
Hackers of the world, unite!